Franciscos growth wealth divide between the haves and the have nots. Id like to thank supervisors campos, cohen, supervisor chiu for joining me in calling for the Digital Divide in our city. Last week the San Francisco chronicle came out with an editorial calling the Digital Divide a disturbing divide, citing a field poll study done saying 25 of californians, about a quarter of everyone living in our state do not have adequate access to highspeed internet. I think it raised some concerns for me of one of the wealthiest cities in the world. One of the regions of the world that perhaps is a tech capital of the world and how many children and seniors and others are left outdated without access to the internet. And im calling for the hearing and study done by the budget and legislative analyst to look at this issue. From access to Public Services to helping children accomplish their schoolwork, we all depend on fast and reliable Internet Access or many of us do. As a single father, i often
Bathrooms, both separate secondes can be costly and unisex has been the trend [speaker not understood] we can be flexible with the city. I have asked the strona mend this code so they are only required to have one bathroom onsite to serve the needs of guests and reduce the cost of doing business in the city. There are a number of other serious issues that were raised. Were doing a lot more research on as staff and my office to see if there are issues we can bring forward to the full board here. But i do want to thank [speaker not understood] from my staff who hoox been running a lot of this open data open gov work. I have to say overall i was really impressed with the participation from our citys youth and college and law students from here in the city. We continue to live in what is becoming the Global Center of innovation and this is one way to engage our residents what we do in city hall. Look forward to continuing to utilize this tool and technologies to modernize what we do herein
2017. So, thats about in less than 31 2 years, i believe, and it seems really unlikely that they will be able to do it without some serious help. My hope is San Francisco, once we identify what the Digital Divide is, that we have action steps that we as a city move forward with to make sure that nobody is left behind from the booming econ nip and the Booming Technology that we are seeing in the city. And my other item is a sad in memoriam and id like to close the meeting with the support of cosponsor supervisor david campos in honor of an amazing giant for immigrant rights, for senior access, and for for the poor and the vulnerable in our city, vera hale, also known as vera hale dallenburg. She was a leader, colleague, and friend within the senior and disabled Community Activist and i miss her very, very much. Commissioner hale, she was an immigrants right commissioner. She passed away peacefully at kaiser in San Francisco on the evening of july 9, 2014. While holding the hands of her